A team of researchers has created the very first gene-edited dogs using a cloning process that involves skin cells. South Korean biotech company ToolGen, along with Chungnam National University, ...

Recombinant DNA technologies developed in the early 1970s enabled scientists to isolate genes of interest and splice them into existing DNA structures. However, as late as the early 1980s, the ...

Unlike most of the other cell types in the human body, stem cells are "pluripotent," meaning they have the capacity to become any of the 220 specialized cell types in our bodies, given the right set ...

Researchers often call the polymerase chain reaction test – known as the PCR test – "the gold standard" for detecting the COVID-19 virus. The test is considered highly reliable and effective, and it ...

It was 10 years ago this week, on a warm July night, that a newborn lamb with an unique pedigree took her first breath in a small shed tucked in the Scottish hills a few miles south of Edinburgh. From ...